State v. Drake

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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

In The Court of Appeals

The State, Respondent,

v.

Hobart Parker Drake, Jr., Appellant.

Appeal From Sumter County

 Thomas W. Cooper, Jr., Circuit Court
Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2008-UP-508

Submitted September 2, 2008 – Filed
September 5, 2008   

APPEAL DISMISSED

Robert M. Dudek, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney
General John W. McIntosh, Senior Assistant Attorney General William Edgar
Salter, III, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, all  of
Columbia; and Solicitor C. Kelly Jackson, of Sumter, for Respondent.

PER CURIAM: Hobart Parker Drake, Jr. appeals his convictions
for car jacking, armed robbery, and murder. On
appeal, Drake contends the trial court erred in admitting a knife into
evidence.  After a thorough
review of the record, counsel’s brief, and Drake’s pro se brief
pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967) and State v.
Williams, 305 S.C. 116, 406 S.E.2d 357 (1991), we dismiss the appeal and
grant counsel’s motion to be relieved.[1]

APPEAL
DISMISSED.

SHORT,
THOMAS, and PIEPER, JJ., concur.

[1] We decide this case without oral argument
pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.